George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
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When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.
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That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
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Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.
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It is fun to smash guitars.
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Aging is one of the most visual diseases on the planet and includes things that we all know like wrinkles and grey hair, but also brain atrophy, muscle wasting and organ damage.
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When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.
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In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.
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The Grammys to me, well, that's my peers. That's the industry thinking what I do is good.
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A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
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Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
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I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
